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Golarion's conventional view on Intelligence and Wisdom:

Intelligence is useful for learning how to read and doing figures and learning more complicated work; at higher levels, you can learn complicated math and be a wizard.  It has little or no effect on personality; you can be good at math or bad at math and have pretty much the same underlying personality.

Wisdom is perceptiveness and self-control; at higher levels, closeness with the divine.  Wisdom has a more pronounced effect on personality than Intelligence; it's associated with maturity rather than cleverness.  Golarion languages with curse-words for 'stupid' tend to mean low-Wisdom rather than low-Intelligence, albeit in the end the term mostly means low-status, of course.  The actual abilities associated with Wisdom, if not always the measured abilitystat, tends to increase with age instead of go down as Intelligence does.  Sudden stress episodes can increase apparent wiseness, though usually not the measured abilitystat.


From the perspective of dath ilan, that uses mental calculation for things Golarion does not yet know how to do - well, mostly their perspective could not easily be translated out of their worldview at all, and would make mention of notions like 'RAM and processing speed'.  But to translate it back into Golarion terms:  Intelligence is calculation and all that dath ilan can do with mental calculation, but Wisdom is the ability to control that calculation-power and listen to the results of that calculation-power.

INT 27 and WIS 20 makes you a dath ilani who's exceptionally talented at math even by their standards.

INT 27 and WIS 26 makes you something else entirely -

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Golarion's conventional view on Intelligence and Wisdom:

Intelligence is useful for learning how to read and doing figures and learning more complicated work; at higher levels, you can learn complicated math and be a wizard.  It has little or no effect on personality; you can be good at math or bad at math and have pretty much the same underlying personality.

Wisdom is perceptiveness and self-control; at higher levels, closeness with the divine.  Wisdom has a more pronounced effect on personality than Intelligence; it's associated with maturity rather than cleverness.  Golarion languages with curse-words for 'stupid' tend to mean low-Wisdom rather than low-Intelligence, albeit in the end the term mostly means low-status, of course.  The actual abilities associated with Wisdom, if not always the measured abilitystat, tend to increase with age instead of go down as Intelligence does.  Sudden stress episodes can increase apparent wiseness some time afterwards, though usually not the measured abilitystat.


From the perspective of dath ilan, that uses mental calculation for things Golarion does not yet know how to do - well, mostly their perspective could not easily be translated out of their worldview at all, and would make mention of notions like 'RAM and processing speed'.  But to translate it back into Golarion terms:  Intelligence is calculation and all that dath ilan can do with mental calculation, but Wisdom is the ability to control that calculation-power and listen to the results of that calculation-power.

INT 27 and WIS 20 makes you a dath ilani who's exceptionally talented at math even by their standards.

INT 27 and WIS 26 makes you something else entirely -

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Golarion's conventional view on Intelligence and Wisdom:

Intelligence is useful for learning how to read and doing figures and learning more complicated work; at higher levels, you can learn complicated math and be a wizard.  It has little or no effect on personality; you can be good at math or bad at math and have pretty much the same underlying personality.

Wisdom is perceptiveness and self-control; at higher levels, closeness with the divine.  Wisdom has a more pronounced effect on personality than Intelligence; it's associated with maturity rather than cleverness.  Golarion languages with curse-words for 'stupid' tend to mean low-Wisdom rather than low-Intelligence, albeit in the end the term mostly means low-status, of course.  The actual abilities associated with Wisdom, if not always the measured abilitystat, tend to increase with age instead of go down as Intelligence does.  Sudden stress episodes can increase apparent wiseness some time afterwards, though usually not the measured abilitystat.


From the perspective of dath ilan, that uses mental calculation for things Golarion does not yet know how to do - well, mostly their perspective could not easily be translated out of their worldview at all, and would make mention of notions like 'RAM and processing speed' or 'cognitive reflectivity' or 'frontal motor cortex'.  But to translate it back into Golarion terms:  Intelligence is calculation and all that dath ilan can do with mental calculation, but Wisdom is the ability to control that calculation-power and listen to the results of that calculation-power.

INT 27 and WIS 20 makes you a dath ilani who's exceptionally talented at math even by their standards.

INT 27 and WIS 26 makes you something else entirely -

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Golarion's conventional view on Intelligence and Wisdom:

Intelligence is useful for learning how to read and doing figures and learning more complicated work; at higher levels, you can learn complicated math and be a wizard.  It has little or no effect on personality; you can be good at math or bad at math and have pretty much the same underlying personality.

Wisdom is perceptiveness and self-control; at higher levels, closeness with the divine.  Wisdom has a more pronounced effect on personality than Intelligence; it's associated with maturity rather than cleverness.  Golarion languages with curse-words for 'stupid' tend to mean low-Wisdom rather than low-Intelligence, albeit in the end the term mostly means low-status, of course.  The actual abilities associated with Wisdom, if not always the measured abilitystat, tend to increase with age instead of go down as Intelligence does.  Sudden stress episodes can increase apparent wiseness some time afterwards, though usually not the measured abilitystat.


From the perspective of dath ilan, that uses mental calculation for things Golarion does not yet know how to do - well, mostly their perspective could not easily be translated out of their worldview at all, and would make mention of notions like 'RAM and processing speed' or 'cognitive reflectivity' or 'frontal cognitomotor cortex'.  But to translate it back into Golarion terms:  Intelligence is calculation and all that dath ilan can do with mental calculation, but Wisdom is the ability to control that calculation-power and listen to the results of that calculation-power.

INT 27 and WIS 20 makes you a dath ilani who's exceptionally talented at math even by their standards.

INT 27 and WIS 26 makes you something else entirely -

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Golarion's conventional view on Intelligence and Wisdom:

Intelligence is useful for learning how to read and doing figures and learning more complicated work; at higher levels, you can learn complicated math and be a wizard.  It has little or no effect on personality; you can be good at math or bad at math and have pretty much the same underlying personality.

Wisdom is perceptiveness and self-control; at higher levels, closeness with the divine.  Wisdom has a more pronounced effect on personality than Intelligence; it's associated with maturity rather than cleverness.  Golarion languages with curse-words for 'stupid' tend to mean low-Wisdom rather than low-Intelligence, albeit in the end the term mostly means low-status, of course.  The actual abilities associated with Wisdom, if not always the measured abilitystat, tend to increase with age instead of go down as Intelligence does.  Sudden stress episodes can increase apparent wiseness some time afterwards, though usually not the measured abilitystat.


From the perspective of dath ilan, that uses mental calculation for things Golarion does not yet know how to do - well, mostly dath ilan's perspective could not easily be translated out of their worldview at all, and would make mention of notions like 'RAM and processing speed' or 'cognitive reflectivity' or 'frontal cognitomotor cortex'.  But to translate it back into Golarion terms:  Intelligence is calculation and all that dath ilan can do with mental calculation, but Wisdom is the ability to control that calculation-power and listen to the results of that calculation-power.

INT 27 and WIS 20 makes you a dath ilani who's exceptionally talented at math even by their standards.

INT 27 and WIS 26 makes you something else entirely -